I landed in Toronto in 1984, it was so nice, clean and safe. I used to work in a restaurant as a waitress while going to college and after closing the place my coworkers and I used to walk down Yonge Street towards College St and go to the Golden Griddle to eat and chat. I miss Sam The Record Man, Maple Leaf Gardens, the CNE Grandstand, and so many other cool places that no longer exist. My dearest Toronto, it breaks my heart to see what has become of you 😢😢😢
Amen! Yes..the famous 24 hour Golden Griddle on Carlton street across from the Gardens. Spent many a night there burning the midnight oil chatting with my buddy for hours.
wow...this takes me back...i was 32 in 1986 and remember these sites quite well...now i'm 64, double the age i was back then...very nostalgic for me...thanks.
I watched this Night Ride series way back in 1990 to 1992 dreaming about Toronto and how fun it used to be to visit especially when taking the VIA train and walking out of Union Station and onto the streets of Toronto.
I was 11 years old when this came out. Now on the verge of 45, I never realized how calming it actually is given the amount of stress in an adult life as opposed to a child's life. 🙂
I remember these from CityTV late night programming, CFMT-TV's Chuck the Security Guard (Chas Lawther) and his, "All-Night Show," on Channel 47. Funny to see Ed's Warehouse and Telfer's restaurants, Harry Young's store and the illuminated outline of Old City Hall, a nostalgic ride indeed. Love it!
I honestly would pay good money to get this upgraded to 4K! Spent a great night watching this in my youth and have passed it on to my younger friends and family!!
I remember spending many late nights watching this. This was right before tv stations started playing infomercials in the middle of the night. Interesting to see all those places I used to frequent, now long gone...
Dear lord I remember seeing this late at night when I was a kid. And kind of sad watching again knowing just how much Toronto's landscape has changed in these last 3 decades. Very nostalgic viewing.
This show saved my life. I hada brand new baby that would not sleep. Most nights, I would get up and do a feed, then we would like on the futon in the living room and calm down and sleep.
even though i wasnt around the time it was filmed, I still just enjoy looking at such old footage... especially love the distorted images the old cameras give
by the way, if you know how this type of distortion is called (like the blurry and dark images this camera takes, for example), could you tell me the name, if it even has one. would be very grateful
There was always a sense of adventure and knowing that almost anything could happen, but we still felt safe no matter what hour of the night. I worked in restaurants during university and loved riding my motorcycle at 2 in the morning. The city was so cool.
I had just started college in 1989/90. WKBW, Channel 7 here in Buffalo, would do something similar during the "late night" hours; a car would be driving all over the city and filming the night scenery with pop/jazz sounding music.
Found this through a vaporwave mix, funnily enough. Smooth jazz mixed with late night scenes... Absolutely fabulous I say. I wasn't around in the '80s, hell, I wasn't even around during the 20th century (only came around the mid-2000s), yet I always felt a strange nostalgia for older things. VHS tapes, tube televisions, old video games, neon signs... Might be because I was raised on old 1970s-1990s shows.
man this whole comment section is so wholesome, and the music is relaxing. must be fun to tune in to shows like this in the night. Are there any other shows like this?
It had sister shows called Night Walk and Night Moves. I used to watch them late at night when my parents were asleep and just relax to the calm evening video and jazz. An odd, but wholesome, thing for an 8-year-old to do.
WOW, back in high school when I stayed up for no reason at all, I was watching this all the time. loved it then ,still love it now, They just pass an idea to turn the old city Hall into a Toronto Museum, I really hope they have a theater like area where they can play these show ( night ride and night walk ) non stop. it's the only way everyone can see how the city changed !!!
Thank you so much after years of trying those meditation videos to calm and help me sleep I finally found something that worked , within in seconds i was brought back to a calmer time in my life , thanks again
Back then, Toronto night clubs closed at 1 am (snicker) and the city was lame. Fast forward to 2020, pre-COVID-19, clubs now close at 2 am.... and Toronto is STILL lame. ( -_-) zzzzzzzz
Gosh how I miss this era. Toronto still felt like a big city, but not a dirty, crime infested, megalopolis with no soul. Actually, the whole world was a better place.
I remember this as a kid. I couldn't really appreciate it, except that by this being such an unusual programme, I felt that it and I were some kind of accomplices in the heinous crime of being awake with the telly on at 3 in the morning. What was the rationale behind this programme? Was it a kind of lullaby?
Love driving around downtown my fav way to go downtown is by the don valley then head on the gardiner for a bit then get into the city and take young street all the way back
Toronto that was once the "good". Now just an overcrowded mess of condo canyons and way too many people for the real estate they occupy. I miss this Toronto so much. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I was but a kid in the 80's when this came on! It is VERY nostalgic indeed!!!! Thank you kindly for the upload! How did you get a hold of these copies? It would be a very interesting story!
@Byung Cho All original eps are from my VHS collection. I recorded them in 1987 and 1988. On the 2nd Night Walk episode, in the third song, I realized I didn't have enough left on my tape to record the whole episode in SP, and you can hear a loud squeak as I switched it to LP in order to fit it all in. The last segment with the credits is in SLP, or EP. You can see and hear that the quality is not as good...
@@MyNightWalk so that was the loud squeak I heard when I heard it for the first time I thought it was my headphones cutting out I was only one year old when the original series came out so I caught it on reruns in 1992
@@MyNightWalkThank you so much! That was great thinking to record these. For years, I'd ask people if they remembered these shows. They only existed in my head. I love that you were able to resurrect them for us!
it was a magical place to a kid from jane finch who witnessed his first rock concert there.. and many more til the old girl was turned into a loblaws 😳
@@MM1717mm Magical for me too, first a green seats hockey game (Carl Brewer out of retirement? cud that be right) and then my first big city concert. Messanjah opened up for...The Clash! Every city and every person has these stories...some UA-cam video seems ok for posthumous remarks.
Does anybody know the opening song from nitride sung by Sharon Lee Williams I like that song very much sway over 5 minutes if you know the name of the song to email me hear thank you
I miss old old toronto, look at that Yonge street, record stores and arcades and strip joints and head shops and now its all foot lockers and suburban mall stores. Even the worlds biggest bookstore is gone. Its not the same and its not better, its all gentrified crap now
I remember all those places you mentioned! The record stores, arcades, strip joints, those head shops, and the world's biggest bookstore! But then people don't read anymore. There used to be more used book shops too! Things have gentrified. I fondly remember Imperial Six Cinemas!
I see a lot of fellow Canadians here, just a random person here. I wish Toronto was like this, you know that roads in Toronto are shit. They’ve gone to shit
“whether drunkenly wandering the streets of Montreal in search of smoked meat sandwiches and poutine, or getting high until the sun came up while watching Night Ride." That Toronto-based TV show, which aired on Global in the late '80s and early '90s, is "still to this day one of my favourite TV shows," according to Grohl.
@@MyNightWalk Question how do you and Michael Spivak meet and got the copyright to these videos great job by the way it makes me feel like I am reliving these great shows from my childhood this is the Global Television network i knew growing up as an 33 year old makes me feel like a kid again.
Hi Michael, I first contacted Michael Spivak in 2005 and we began corresponding by email. At first I asked for permission to use the Night Ride audio for the 2005 Fort Worth low-tech video, and then in 2017 for permission to upload all of the original shows. He's been great and very generous and is thrilled his music lives on through the My Night Walk channel.
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Xmas tradition since I was 6 in 1991 to fall asleep to this when I couldn’t get to sleep excited to open presents.
i use this on a playlist nightly to try and help me sleep
This.
So what did you get in 1991 then?
Thanks Dave ghrol!
There was a lot of mystery and enchantment in the city at the time, now gone.
I landed in Toronto in 1984, it was so nice, clean and safe. I used to work in a restaurant as a waitress while going to college and after closing the place my coworkers and I used to walk down Yonge Street towards College St and go to the Golden Griddle to eat and chat. I miss Sam The Record Man, Maple Leaf Gardens, the CNE Grandstand, and so many other cool places that no longer exist. My dearest Toronto, it breaks my heart to see what has become of you 😢😢😢
Amen! Yes..the famous 24 hour Golden Griddle on Carlton street across from the Gardens. Spent many a night there burning the midnight oil chatting with my buddy for hours.
I'm just reading storyteller by dave grohl and he talks about this show in his book. I would have loved to have lived there in the 80s..
@@ClintScottFischerProbably a lot of talks about hockey and Rush.
Great memories, thank you for reminding me of those good times.
@MrMattdoyle1981 Do you remember what he said about this show? Cool that Dave Grohl has watched it too!
This is beautiful. I am awake at 3:41 am watching this , can't sleep just drinking coffee and smoking a joint while watching this on my phone.
Coming home from the Gasworks and passing out with this on the TV, good times!
Now Thats Kool!!
Watching this after reading about it in Dave Grohl's autobiography....stoned and chilled......great.
Hitting some herb and reading Dave Grohls memoir at 3 am. Thanks for the new video idea Dave!!!
Here I am in 2024... I can't sleep and I decide to come to visit an old friend.
Dave Grohl’s book sent me here.
I listen to this video every day and I am from Detroit Michigan but my mother is from Canada. Born and rays in Canada
My sister and I used to love this show and it's music, it would often times put me to sleep.
It’s that great music that made its so good. 👍 as you say.
wow...this takes me back...i was 32 in 1986 and remember these sites quite well...now i'm 64, double the age i was back then...very nostalgic for me...thanks.
I'm 70. Same thing.
@Gavin Lawson ...
I'll be 64 in March-2022.
I watched this Night Ride series way back in 1990 to 1992 dreaming about Toronto and how fun it used to be to visit especially when taking the VIA train and walking out of Union Station and onto the streets of Toronto.
I was 11 years old when this came out. Now on the verge of 45, I never realized how calming it actually is given the amount of stress in an adult life as opposed to a child's life. 🙂
Thank you so much Night Walk. It was a great pleasure to watch this again 30 years later. 😁👍🇨🇦
I remember these from CityTV late night programming, CFMT-TV's Chuck the Security Guard (Chas Lawther) and his, "All-Night Show," on Channel 47. Funny to see Ed's Warehouse and Telfer's restaurants, Harry Young's store and the illuminated outline of Old City Hall, a nostalgic ride indeed. Love it!
Night Walk, Night Ride, and Night Moves were on Global.
@@christosyal5883 Yes, I discovered this after making the comment. It seemed like CityTV, but memories fade. Thanks!
RIP Guido Basso.
I honestly would pay good money to get this upgraded to 4K! Spent a great night watching this in my youth and have passed it on to my younger friends and family!!
I now what you mean, but sadly 4K didn't exist back then. I'd still buy the box set of the originals if they released it.
That was my friend in the 80s. Often I could not sleep and I listen to this. I still love it! ❤
I remember spending many late nights watching this. This was right before tv stations started playing infomercials in the middle of the night. Interesting to see all those places I used to frequent, now long gone...
Dear lord I remember seeing this late at night when I was a kid. And kind of sad watching again knowing just how much Toronto's landscape has changed in these last 3 decades. Very nostalgic viewing.
I could have written the same thing brother! God bless you and yours 🙏
I bet Toronto didn’t resemble Hong Kong back then?
Like a dream come true, because I can see it with my own eyes! Long live 1986, in spirit and in truth, so help us God! Amen
This show saved my life. I hada brand new baby that would not sleep. Most nights, I would get up and do a feed, then we would like on the futon in the living room and calm down and sleep.
Up at night feeding my baby. Got addicted to this show. Still love it.
Always tuned into this when I needed to relax... so grateful that I can still look back & enjoy.
I'm a Torontonian born and raised. I miss this Toronto :(
even though i wasnt around the time it was filmed, I still just enjoy looking at such old footage... especially love the distorted images the old cameras give
by the way, if you know how this type of distortion is called (like the blurry and dark images this camera takes, for example), could you tell me the name, if it even has one. would be very grateful
So sad this world class city has turned into a circus-i miss the old
days when visiting Toronto was so much fun
There was always a sense of adventure and knowing that almost anything could happen, but we still felt safe no matter what hour of the night. I worked in restaurants during university and loved riding my motorcycle at 2 in the morning. The city was so cool.
WoW !! Do I ever remember this, You brought back memories brother. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video.
Nice relaxing music to listen to on these long lonely nights. 🎷🎵📺🌃🌜😊
I had just started college in 1989/90. WKBW, Channel 7 here in Buffalo, would do something similar during the "late night" hours; a car would be driving all over the city and filming the night scenery with pop/jazz sounding music.
Found this through a vaporwave mix, funnily enough. Smooth jazz mixed with late night scenes... Absolutely fabulous I say.
I wasn't around in the '80s, hell, I wasn't even around during the 20th century (only came around the mid-2000s), yet I always felt a strange nostalgia for older things. VHS tapes, tube televisions, old video games, neon signs... Might be because I was raised on old 1970s-1990s shows.
Back in the time before all hell broke loose on earth good time back then smile
This is so cool! I used to watch this show when I was a kid. Just thought of it today and glad I can still watch it. Now anytime I want!
man this whole comment section is so wholesome, and the music is relaxing.
must be fun to tune in to shows like this in the night. Are there any other shows like this?
It had sister shows called Night Walk and Night Moves. I used to watch them late at night when my parents were asleep and just relax to the calm evening video and jazz. An odd, but wholesome, thing for an 8-year-old to do.
@@christosyal5883I'm working on some night moves.
I miss those days i was 36 then now I'm 69.Thank yu for the memories.
WOW, back in high school when I stayed up for no reason at all, I was watching this all the time. loved it then ,still love it now,
They just pass an idea to turn the old city Hall into a Toronto Museum, I really hope they have a theater like area where they can play these show ( night ride and night walk ) non stop. it's the only way everyone can see how the city changed !!!
when Toronto was driveable....ahh. thank you for this nostalgic video!
Thank you so much after years of trying those meditation videos to calm and help me sleep I finally found something that worked , within in seconds i was brought back to a calmer time in my life , thanks again
The music is relaxing.
Never heard of this show before until listening to a audiobook that mentioned it, surprised on how good it is haha
Back then, Toronto night clubs closed at 1 am (snicker) and the city was lame. Fast forward to 2020, pre-COVID-19, clubs now close at 2 am.... and Toronto is STILL lame. ( -_-) zzzzzzzz
I was only one when this first aired so I caught this around 1992 or 1993 back in the golden era of the Global Television Network
Gosh how I miss this era. Toronto still felt like a big city, but not a dirty, crime infested, megalopolis with no soul. Actually, the whole world was a better place.
I read about this show in Dave Grohl’s book. I had never even heard of “slow TV” before, but I love this!
I won't lie. Dave Grohl brought me here 🤘
Same! 😂
Reading his book and I had to check it out! 🥰
Same here...thanks Dave..😂
I was 8 years old...3 or 4 in the morning, couldnt sleep... A 14 inch black and white TV in my room...living in Malton...
I remember this as a kid. I couldn't really appreciate it, except that by this being such an unusual programme, I felt that it and I were some kind of accomplices in the heinous crime of being awake with the telly on at 3 in the morning.
What was the rationale behind this programme? Was it a kind of lullaby?
Love driving around downtown my fav way to go downtown is by the don valley then head on the gardiner for a bit then get into the city and take young street all the way back
Toronto that was once the "good". Now just an overcrowded mess of condo canyons and way too many people for the real estate they occupy. I miss this Toronto so much. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Yes it sure was nicer back then
I was but a kid in the 80's when this came on! It is VERY nostalgic indeed!!!! Thank you kindly for the upload! How did you get a hold of these copies? It would be a very interesting story!
@Byung Cho All original eps are from my VHS collection. I recorded them in 1987 and 1988. On the 2nd Night Walk episode, in the third song, I realized I didn't have enough left on my tape to record the whole episode in SP, and you can hear a loud squeak as I switched it to LP in order to fit it all in. The last segment with the credits is in SLP, or EP. You can see and hear that the quality is not as good...
@@MyNightWalk so that was the loud squeak I heard when I heard it for the first time I thought it was my headphones cutting out I was only one year old when the original series came out so I caught it on reruns in 1992
@@MyNightWalkThank you so much! That was great thinking to record these. For years, I'd ask people if they remembered these shows. They only existed in my head. I love that you were able to resurrect them for us!
They should remake this format with todays video and audio technology.
Amazing.
Nice to see the old Harvey's logo at 50:36 🍔😋
Oh I remember the sodium lights on the DVP.
check out Night Ride Redux on UA-cam if you haven't already, retraces this same route 30 years later
Thank you.. 😉
Dave grohl brought me here
Ah, the Big Slice. I know I miss it. Demolished to make way for more damned condos.
In an alternate universe, I live here. In the 416.
22:28 and over on your left you see Maple Leaf Gardens
it was a magical place to a kid from jane finch who witnessed his first rock concert there.. and many more til the old girl was turned into a loblaws 😳
@@MM1717mm Magical for me too, first a green seats hockey game (Carl Brewer out of retirement? cud that be right) and then my first big city concert. Messanjah opened up for...The Clash! Every city and every person has these stories...some UA-cam video seems ok for posthumous remarks.
Does anybody know the opening song from nitride sung by Sharon Lee Williams I like that song very much sway over 5 minutes if you know the name of the song to email me hear thank you
Here because of Dave Grohl.
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Things that make you go hmmm ... . "Ford Drugs" (20:18)
thanks Dave Grohl.
Who else is here cos of Dave Grohl
Don't care
@@notveryniceatall you clearly cared enough to reply 🤡
I miss old old toronto, look at that Yonge street, record stores and arcades and strip joints and head shops and now its all foot lockers and suburban mall stores. Even the worlds biggest bookstore is gone. Its not the same and its not better, its all gentrified crap now
I remember all those places you mentioned! The record stores, arcades, strip joints, those head shops, and the world's biggest bookstore! But then people don't read anymore. There used to be more used book shops too! Things have gentrified. I fondly remember Imperial Six Cinemas!
I can't see anything! Lol why is it so dark?
It is a shame that the film is degraded. I wonder what it would take to remaster the original series.
With artificial intelligence I’m sure it’s not going to be hard
I see a lot of fellow Canadians here, just a random person here. I wish Toronto was like this, you know that roads in Toronto are shit. They’ve gone to shit
I got ripped off trying to buy hash in that basement arcade (19:50) ? or (20:37)? sometime late 80s
i find it depressing when I watch this video that is how I remember downtown . I think that was the last time I went downtown in 1986
Can you correct the title to Toronto ON?
@Jeffrey Austin Done - thanks!
What does Dave Grohl say about this show in his book?
“whether drunkenly wandering the streets of Montreal in search of smoked meat sandwiches and poutine, or getting high until the sun came up while watching Night Ride." That Toronto-based TV show, which aired on Global in the late '80s and early '90s, is "still to this day one of my favourite TV shows," according to Grohl.
@@PabloSanch1000 That's awesome! Thank you! I'd have to agree with him. 😊
any HD version of this ?
_zoom zoom zoom_ zoomers b zoomin _zoom zoom_
There is now! ua-cam.com/video/CPNXA0DC1TQ/v-deo.html
@@MyNightWalk Question how do you and Michael Spivak meet and got the copyright to these videos great job by the way it makes me feel like I am reliving these great shows from my childhood this is the Global Television network i knew growing up as an 33 year old makes me feel like a kid again.
Hi Michael, I first contacted Michael Spivak in 2005 and we began corresponding by email. At first I asked for permission to use the Night Ride audio for the 2005 Fort Worth low-tech video, and then in 2017 for permission to upload all of the original shows. He's been great and very generous and is thrilled his music lives on through the My Night Walk channel.
@@MyNightWalk Great thanks for that and love the channel
Test me? Just net: $10k the entire series, Seinfeld. Po as fuck.
RIP Guido Basso.
@Steve Roberts Thank you for sharing this news. RIP indeed!